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| Guido
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Duca di Spoleto (–883) Biographical Duca di Spoleto 880–83† Duca di Camerino 880–83† After assuming control of the Duchy of Spoleto following his father’s death, Guido embarked on a series of ambitious policies aimed at entangling Spoleto more deeply in Roman affairs and extending its influence into southern Italy. Soon after his accession in 880, Pope John VIII summoned him to a papal curtis, but Guido refused to attend, prompting the Pope to inform Charles III the Fat of the duke’s incursions into papal lands later that year. Despite his aggressive reputation, earning him the derisive nickname Rabbia and, according to some uncertain reports, the mutilation of eighty-three Roman nobles, Guido offered little resistance to Charles’s advance into Italy, allowing the emperor to reach Rome and be crowned on 12 February 881. In November that year, John VIII appealed again to Charles, urging him to compel Guido to withdraw from Roman territory. In early 882, Guido participated in negotiations with both the Pope and the Emperor at a diet in Ravenna, where he and his uncle Guido, Count of Camerino, pledged to return to the papacy the lands of St. Peter’s Patrimony that had been seized, yet by the following month John VIII complained that none of the promised restitutions had been carried out. Guido’s rule came to an end in 883, leaving two young children, including Guido IV, who would later inherit the duchy, and due to the similarity of names and overlapping chronology, this Guido is frequently confused with his more renowned uncle. Son of Lambert I, he had issue (including Itta [865–>97], who married Guimar I, Prince of Salerno, with issue. although some sources are uncertain of her parentage). |
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